School Life

School Life

Kindercentre

Junior Kindergarten Programme

Webber Academy offers a full-day or half-day Junior Kindergarten programme for students who are developmentally ready for schooling. Students in this programme must turn four years of age by December 31st of the school year that they commence. The programme runs daily, similar to our regular school programme.

Students in the Junior Kindergarten programme spend a great deal of time in readiness activities, which include the following:

Identifying colours and shapes

Listening to stories and learning to appreciate books

Drawing, printing and colouring

Singing songs and developing pitch

Reciting the alphabet

Beginning to recognize and print upper case letters

Learning basic phonics

Recognizing and printing numerals from 1-20

Recognizing and printing own name

Distinguishing sets of more, less, same

Storytelling

Demonstrating left to right progression

Repeating and creating rhythmic patterns

Understanding sequence

Reciting poetry

Most importantly, students at the Junior Kindergarten level develop an appreciation and love of learning!

Senior Kindergarten Programme

The Senior Kindergarten programme is a full day programme offered for students who are 5 years of age by December 31st of the school year that they commence. In addition to current Kindergarten programmes that run in many schools, where thematic centres are an integral part of the programme, students at Webber Academy also spend a great deal of time in activities which will prepare them for Grade One. By the end of the Senior Kindergarten year, the programme activities will have included:

Printing top-bottom, left-right

Reading for pleasure and showing an interest in books

Reading own printing in books

Classifying and sorting

Knowing letter sound relationships of all single letters

Collecting, displaying, and analyzing data

Identifying and printing numbers from 1-100

Recognizing basic sight vocabulary of high frequency words

Estimating and comparing frequency words

Demonstrating an understanding of a proficiency with calculations

Reading books with confidence and with a degree of independence

Choosing and employing appropriate operations to solve problems

Sequencing, matching, and understanding of and proficiency with calculations

Recognizing and using patterns in a variety of situations

Writing journal entries, stories using inventive spelling

Recognizing and printing upper and lower case letters

Please note that at the end of the Senior Kindergarten year, all students are assessed for suitability for the Webber Academy Grade One programme. Subsequent to this assessment, successful students are offered placements for the following school year.